As Mr. Wombat & Furrball took off their goggles after exiting the Television Room, Mr. Wombat spoke up.
"Now, let's carry on with the tour. Who do we have left?"
After he turned to Furrball, he made a face of worry & concern. Furrball looked timidly around him before he spoke up.
"Mr. Wombat, there's no one else here besides me."
"You mean...?"
"Yep, I'm the only one left."
Slowly, but unexpectedly, Mr. Wombat's face went from concern to joy & happiness.
"Oh, my dear boy, do you know what this means?"
Furrball looked up questionably at Mr. Wombat.
"It means you won!"
The blue cat then made a face of genuine surprise.
"I won?", he asked.
"Yes, my feline friend", the candyman replied as he shook Furrball's hand, "you've won the grand prize!"
"The lifetime supply of chocolate?"
"Yes, but that's not the grand prize, Furrball."
"It's not?", Furrball asked in confusion.
"No, my dear boy, it isn't."
"Oh. Then what is the grand prize?"
Mr. Wombat took a couple steps back as he answered.
"The grand prize, Furrball...", he spread out his arms & looked around, "is this."
Furrball looked around the place, not knowing what the wombat was referring to.
"Sir?"
"How did you like this factory, Furrball?"
"I love it. I think it's the most amazing place in the whole world."
"I am so delighted to hear that...because this here factory...is now yours."
Furrball's face lit up in surprise. "What? Y-you mean...?"
"Yes, Furrball. I'm giving you the factory."
Furrball was completely speechless. Mr. Wombat is giving him the factory? Why would he give it all away?
"But...but sir-"
"I can't continue on, Furrball. All good things must come to an end, and I'm afraid the end is coming for me. So, who can I trust to run the factory for me while I'm gone? Who's gonna take care of all the Oompa-Loompas? Who can I share all my secret recipes with? Not a grown-up, no. A grown-up will want to do things his way. So I figured that a kid- a kind, loving, caring kid- would be able to take over for me & do things my way. But there are so many kids here in Acme Acres, so I had to narrow it down to just a few."
"And that's why you sent out the golden tickets!"
"That's right! So, the factory is all yours. You & Fifi can share all the chocolate & sweets that you both desire. Because as of this moment...", the candyman took off his hat & placed it on Furrball's head, "YOU'RE the new Willy Wombat."
Furrball looked up at the hat with wide, surprised eyes. He took it off his head, looking at the headwear in complete astonishment.
He couldn't believe what just happened. He never dreamed of taking over for possibly the greatest candy maker in the world. This was truly something beyond his wildest dreams.
He looked up at Mr. Wombat, eyes watering & lips trembling. He was completely overjoyed. He quickly hugged the candyman, who gently hugged back.
"Thank you, Mr. Wombat", the blue cat weeped.
Mr. Wombat chuckled as he replied, "You're welcome, Furrball."
The two stayed in their embrace for a moment, before Mr. Wombat spoke up.
"Hey, I think it's time we head on out."
"Now?"
"Yep. Let's take the elevator."
Furrball put the hat back on his head as he followed Mr. Wombat into the elevator. As the doors closed, the wombat spoke up.
"I've saved a special button for you, Furrball."
He picked up the blue cat & held him up to the buttons on the ceiling.
"Which one is it?", Furrball asked.
"The red one in the center."
Furrball looked & saw a single red button that was labelled "UP AND OUT."
"'Up & out?'", Furrball asked. "What kind of room is that?"
"Press it."
Once Furrball pressed the red button, Mr. Wombat set him down & said, "Now hold on."
The elevator shot off toward one direction, before it started going straight up.
"We need to gain more speed", said Mr. Wombat, "or we won't be able to break through."
"'Break through?'", Furrball repeated. "Wait! You mean we're really going...?"
"Yep, up & out."
"But this elevator is made of glass, it'll shatter!"
"Maybe."
Furrball looked up & saw a faint circular opening that was quickly moving toward the elevator. He held on to Mr. Wombat's leg tightly as he closed his eyes. A moment later, the sound of shattering glass filled his ears.
Furrball opened his eyes & saw that the elevator was still intact & that it was shooting into the sky. He looked down & saw that they were ejected out of one of the smokestacks, which had glass covering the top that shattered from the impact of the elevator.
Suddenly, the elevator started falling from the sky. The blue cat looked up & saw that Mr. Wombat wasn't scared at all. In fact, he was smiling.
Furrball closed his eyes again, but at that moment, Mr. Wombat flipped open the top of his cane, which revealed a button. He pressed it, and 4 rocket thrusters appeared at the top of the elevator, which stopped it from falling.
Meanwhile, down below, Buster, Babs, Plucky, Shirley, and Bugs Bunny were walking down the street after leaving Acme Loo, when they saw the glass elevator in the sky.
"Whoa, look at that!", Plucky exclaimed, pointing at the elevator.
"Is that Furrball?", Babs asked.
As the elevator started descending in front of the factory, Bugs & the rest of the group ran up to the gate.
When the elevator landed & the doors opened, Furrball ran out & up to the gate.
"Hey guys!", he called out.
"Hey, Furrball", Buster replied. "Did you have fun?"
"Heck yeah I did!"
"Nice hat", Shirley said.
"Thanks. Oh, you guys won't believe this."
"Did you win the grand prize?", Bugs asked.
"Yes, but it wasn't the lifetime supply of chocolate. It was the factory itself!"
The group all exclaimed in surprise & astonishment.
"You won the FACTORY?!", Buster asked.
"That's great, Furrball!", Babs chirped in excitement.
As Mr. Wombat joined the group at the gate, Buster asked him, "Did you really give Furrball the factory?"
"I sure did. You see, Furrball here is a very kind & caring kid. I think he's worthy enough to fill in my shoes."
"Congrats, Furrball", Bugs said to the blue cat, "but where are the others?"
At that moment, the front door of the factory opened, and Hamton stepped out, completely covered in chocolate.
"Hamton!", Furrball exclaimed as he gave the hat to Mr. Wombat & ran up to the chocolate-covered pig.
"Hey Mr. Wombat", Buster said, "I don't know if you remember, but my grandpa used to work here at the factory."
"Your grandpa? Oh! Baxter Bunny?"
"Yes, that's him!"
"Yeah, I do remember him. Such a nice fellow. Tell him I said 'hi' next time you see him."
"I will."
As Furrball ran up to Hamton, he asked, "Hamton, are you okay?"
Hamton was licking the chocolate off his fingers before he replied, "I have never tasted so good."
He placed his hand into his mouth & started sucking off the chocolate. Furrball looked away in disgust & noticed someone else exiting the factory.
At first, it appeared to be a person hiding behind a big, blue fluffy tail. But as the blue figure started down the steps, Furrball knew who it is.
"Fifi?", he called out.
The figure lowered the tail, and saw Furrball staring at her.
"Furrball?"
As Furrball heard her voice, his body filled with excitement.
"FIFI!"
He started running up to the factory, and Fifi ran down the steps. As they reached each other, they hugged each other very happily.
Furrball gave Fifi a long kiss on the cheek before he said, "Oh Fifi, I'm so happy to see you again!"
"Oui, I'm happy to see you too, Furrball!"
They broke the hug, and Furrball saw that Fifi's fur is still blue.
"Are you okay, sweetheart?"
"Oui, I am, but...look at me. I'm steell blue."
"I can see that."
Fifi's eyes started watering as she said, "I don't like having blue fur, I look hideous. I want my old fur back."
"Oh, Fifi, there's nothing to worry about. Look, your fur now matches my fur."
Furrball held out his arm, and they both saw that their fur are the same matching blue colors.
"Oh, wow", Fifi said, starting to relax, "I never noticed zhat."
"Yeah, and besides...", Furrball took Fifi's hand & kissed it, "I think you look great with blue fur."
"You do?"
"Mm-hmm."
The cat & skunk smiled romantically, both very happy to be reunited. Then, they sniffed the air as something revolting reached their noses.
"Zhat's not me, eez it?", Fifi asked.
"No, I don't think so", Furrball replied.
Just then, they both heard soft squishing footsteps. They looked at the door, and there stood Elmyra, all covered in garbage, flies buzzing around her head. She was looking enraged.
"Ugh!", exclaimed Furrball.
"Oh mon goodness!", Fifi said as she covered her nose with her tail.
"What on earth happened to you?", Hamton asked Elmyra.
As Elmyra came down the steps, Furrball continued.
"My gosh Elmyra, you smell terrible. You smell worse than her", he pointed at Fifi, then turned to her & quickly said, "No offense, sweetheart."
"None taken", Fifi replied.
Elmyra stood at the bottom of the steps, still enraged.
"I'm never touching a squirrel again."
Fifi turned to Furrball, wondering what happened to Elmyra.
"Wha...?"
"I'll explain later."
Mr. Wombat approached the group & said, "Well, I'm glad to see that you all are fine & unharmed."
"Where's Monty?", Elmyra asked. At that moment, they heard bouncing spring sounds coming from the factory doors, accompanied by Monty grunting.
"UNGH! Why must I be like this?"
"What's goeeng on?", Fifi asked.
"OW! This is ridiculous!", Monty shouted. The toons caught a glimpse of Monty, who appeared to be taller than the door, as he smacked his head on the top of the doorframe.
"OOF! Mr. Wombat is gonna pay for this!"
As Monty tried walking through the doorway, his head got caught until it was pulled free. Everyone could see that Monty was stretched quite tall & ludicrously thin. His body looked like it was made of paper.
At that moment, the toons all started laughing at Monty's misfortune. Even Mr. Wombat gave a small chuckle.
"Shut up!", Monty shouted. "All of you, shut up!"
As the toons stopped laughing, Bugs approached them with the other toons behind him.
"What in the world happened to the four of you?"
Furrball grabbed his tail & started wringing it nervously as he said, "Well, it's kind of a long story, Professor Bunny."
"I'm all ears, Furrball."
"Okay. When we were in the Chocolate Room, Hamton was drinking out of the chocolate river, then he fell in & got sucked up a pipe."
Buster, Babs, Plucky, Shirley, and Bugs all turned to Hamton, who was still licking chocolate off his hand.
"Well, Hamton", Bugs said, "I hope you learned a lesson about being greedy."
Hamton, choosing not to respond, continued licking his chocolatey hand. Furrball then continued.
"Then, in the Inventing Room, Fifi..."
Furrball turned to his girlfriend, who looked down in shame. He felt that Fifi didn't want everyone to know what happened to her, but to his surprise, she said, "Go on, tell zhem."
"Okay. In the Inventing Room, Fifi chewed this strip of gum that Mr. Wombat created, and she turned blue & blew up like a balloon-"
"Like a blueberry", Fifi corrected.
"Yeah, exactly."
"Eet was tres horrifying. I knew somezhing bad would happen, but eet wasn't what I expected."
Plucky then said, "Well, if you knew something bad was gonna happen, why did you chew the gum?"
"I couldn't resist. I tried tres hard, but eet was too much."
Shirley then asked, "Like, if the gum was causing you to blow up, why didn't you spit it out or some junk?"
"Because, I was scared", Fifi replied with a breaking voice. Furrball wrapped his arms around the blue skunk & said, "It's okay, sweetheart."
"Okay", Bugs said, "now what about Elmyra & Monty?"
"Oh. In the Nut Room, Elmyra tried to take one of the squirrels, but they all attacked her & threw her down the garbage drain."
"They what?", Buster said as Babs started giggling. "Did I just hear that right?"
"Yep, you did."
"Well, looks like SOMEBODY must've finally learned a lesson", Buster said as he turned to Elmyra with a smug smile on his face. Furrball then continued.
"Then in the Television Room, Monty shrunk himself after he messed around with Mr. Wombat's T.V. device."
"Well", Bugs said, crossing his arms, "I can't believe you all got yourselves into this mess."
"It's no big deal", Plucky said, "Hamton & Elmyra only need a shower & they're fine."
"Yeah, but what about me?", Monty asked. "I'm tall & thin as a wire. I'm stuck like this for good."
"Oui", Fifi replied, "and my fur eez permanently blue. But I want my old fur back." She turned to her boyfriend & said, "Oh Furrball, what can we do?"
Furrball thought for a moment, then came up with an idea.
"I know someone who can help."